2009 WAS A DEADLY YEAR FOR JOURNALISTS

Henk Ruyssenaars

March 22nd 2010 - So, when I wanted to comment on the following story in Mathaba, the following happened.

Using a story by Voice Of America-'news' is not done without some comment, is it? And you must have heard of free speech, comments for instance without the need to register?

Because when you want to comment on the Mathaba story, you end first up with a page like this, making you a member of the clan.

Quote Mathaba page: "Thank you...

Your comment has been sent and is awaiting moderation, but can only be approved if either you are already a Mathaba Briefing member, receiving the Daily Briefing, or if not:

you will need to go now to THIS PAGE and enter your email address, follow the simple instructions, and then immediately check your email after that as you'll get an email with subject line "Email Confirmations" - you will then need to open that email and click on the activation link within it.

Only then can your comment be approved, as per the terms of service that you have agreed to.

You can unsubscribe with a single click at any time from this service, as each Mathaba Briefing email contains an unsubscribe link. We hope however that you will stay with us so that you can be alerted of important news, events and issues not covered in the TV media. To go back to the article you were reading, click here." - [end quote] - Url.: http://www.mathaba.net/news/thanks.htm?rXn=1

Real journalists/reporters - as is shown - are an endangered species. Soon not many of them will be left...

This is the Voice of America/Mathaba story I wanted to comment on:

Voice of America - Quote: "Report: 2009 Deadly, Dangerous Year for Journalists, Bloggers Worldwide - Posted: 2010/02/18 - A press advocacy group says 2009 was a deadly year for reporters around the world, with at least 71 killed.

Feb 16, (voanews) -- But the Philippines saw the deadliest single attack ever on the press, with the execution of 31 journalists and media workers by militiamen loyal to a powerful political clan."

[end quote VOA/Mathaba] - The rest is here at Mathaba - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yzf9vr6

Anyhow, this is what I wrote 5 years ago, and not only the NSA/CIA stories, but reality only gets worse all the time.

PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ

Foreign Press Foundation

Tony Tether, director of the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, said that the Pentagon in Iraq also will use a new electronic detection device that could help pinpoint cell phones or pagers, which sometimes are used to detonate homemade bombs aimed at U.S. troops.



Henk Ruyssenaars 

FPF - Feb. 19th 2005 - ''Recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Eason Jordan, a CNN executive, told a panel that the U.S. military deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq. 

He said he "knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank (Dem) from Massachusetts who was on the panel with Jordan.



"When we hear this statement with the knowledge that 63 journalists have been killed in Iraq, in addition to the fact that in a 14-month-period, more journalists were killed in Iraq than during the entire Vietnam War, one begins to get the feeling that the military clampdown on the media is more than a myth or a conspiracy theory'', Baghdad correspondent Dahr Jamail wrote.



Some time ago the BBC's Kate Adie* openly said the Pentagon c.s. was out to kill 'un american' journalists, and gave an interview concerning those 'friendly fire' killings of her colleagues. 

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The BBC's chief news correspondent became one of the best-known faces on television for her reporting from the major wars of recent years. They include the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone."

When Kate Adie correctly criticized Blair's BBC, concerning the spreading of war propaganda, she was fired.

The BBC broadcasted only two percent of dissent concerning the war in Iraq, which was still lower than the govern't's propaganda spouting ABC in the US.



In the interview Kate Adie said that the Pentagon c.s. threatened to kill journalists in Iraq which did not follow the official american propaganda line; like Adie wasn't willing to do anymore.



In the interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said the Pentagon had threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, and - questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions -a senior Pentagon officer had said:



"Who cares.. ..They've been warned." 



According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the the free spread of information." 



"I am enormously pessimistic of the chance of decent on-the-spot reporting, as the war occurs, "she told Irish national broadcaster, Tom McGurk on the RTE1 Radio Sunday Show." - [end quote]

As a counterweight to the NSA/CIA-paid propaganda broadcasting station 'Voice of America' you also might read the rest of what Ms. Adie said.

Take your pick - Google search - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y8gtz7s

'They' call it 'friendly fire'... don't they?

Well, as said: with 'friends' like these, one doesn't need enemies...

UC?